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Inspector General Open Recommendations

08/16/2024 - National Science Foundation Performance Audit of Incurred Costs - Brown University [Report Details] Audit - Open Recommendations

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Direct Brown to produce formal written guidance and provide training on how to assess and document the methodology used to allocate publication costs consistent with the benefits received by acknowledged funding sources.
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Direct Brown to provide documentation supporting it has repaid or otherwise credited the $7,204 in questioned materials and supplies expenses for which it has agreed to reimburse NSF.
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Resolve the $17,059 in questioned inappropriately allocated publication costs and direct Brown to repay or otherwise remove the sustained questioned costs from its NSF awards.
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Direct Brown to create additional resources that provide guidance regarding the allowable charging of visa fees on NSF awards. This guidance should address how Brown will ensure it does not charge unallowable long-term visa fees to NSF awards.
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Direct Brown to establish additional guidance regarding how to review invoices and receipts that include materials and supplies charged to NSF awards. This guidance should address how to ensure materials and supplies expenses are allowable and properly allocated to the funding sources that directly benefit from the purchase.
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Direct Brown to implement additional procedures which require it to verify that a publication acknowledges the NSF funding source(s) that supported the published research prior to the expense being charged to the NSF award(s).
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Direct Brown to provide documentation supporting that it has repaid or otherwise credited the $47,384 in questioned publication, materials and supplies, and long-term visa costs for which it has agreed to reimburse NSF.

08/16/2024 - National Labor Relations Board Federal Information Security Modernization Act Audit for Fiscal Year 2024 Open Recommendations

08/16/2024 - Election Assistance Commission Audit of the Administration of Help America Vote Act Grants Awarded to the State of Georgia [Report Details] Audit - Open Recommendations

08/16/2024 - Denali Commission Report of Findings and Recommendations for the Review of the Denali Commission’s Privacy Program [Report Details] Audit - Open Recommendations

08/16/2024 - Internal Revenue Service Improvements to the Tax-Exempt Compliance Unit Could Reduce Mistakes and Unproductive Examination Referrals [Report Details] Audit - Open Recommendations

08/16/2024 - Department of Homeland Security FEMA’s Inadequate Oversight Led to Delays in Closing Out Declared Disasters Open Recommendations

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We recommend that the FEMA Administrator consistently apply FEMA Manual 205-0-1, Grants Management requirements, including that the recipient’s request and FEMA’s determination for extensions must be in writing and signed, and that FEMA’s determination include the rationale for the decision, including how the facts meet the applicable guidelines.
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begin administrative closeout of the 26 grant programs we identified with expired periods of performance to the extent permitted by the Stafford Act, for those with no pending requests for extension or lacking acceptable justifications for extension, and deobligate the associated $9.4 million in remaining funds; • assess and close, as appropriate, the 42 grant programs in our scope representing $7 billion in unliquidated funding; and • conduct a review of all authorized grant programs with expired periods of performance to determine whether to administratively closeout and deobligate remaining fund balances, to the extent permitted by the Stafford Act, for those with no pending requests for extension or lacking acceptable justifications for extension.

08/16/2024 - Department of Homeland Security FEMA’s Inadequate Oversight Led to Delays in Closing Out Declared Disasters [Report Details] Audit - Open Recommendations

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We recommend that the FEMA Administrator consistently apply FEMA Manual 205-0-1, Grants Management requirements, including that the recipient’s request and FEMA’s determination for extensions must be in writing and signed, and that FEMA’s determination include the rationale for the decision, including how the facts meet the applicable guidelines.
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We recommend that the FEMA Administrator direct FEMA Regions to: • begin administrative closeout of the 26 grant programs we identified with expired periods of performance to the extent permitted by the Stafford Act, for those with no pending requests for extension or lacking acceptable justifications for extension, and deobligate the associated $9.4 million in remaining funds; • assess and close, as appropriate, the 42 grant programs in our scope representing $7 billion in unliquidated funding; and • conduct a review of all authorized grant programs with expired periods of performance to determine whether to administratively closeout and deobligate remaining fund balances, to the extent permitted by the Stafford Act, for those with no pending requests for extension or lacking acceptable justifications for extension.

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